Summary
Rafael De Castro is a Senior Backend Developer with over six years of professional experience and a decade-long passion for technology, currently leading the backend development of a major digital product at Syngenta Digital Brazil. He designs and operates microservices-driven agro-management systems using Java, Spring, Python, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, S3), and champions testing and coding best practices across his engineering team. Comfortable across the stack from mobile to cloud, he pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring new hires and disseminating engineering standards. Trained in Systems Engineering at UFMG and pursuing further study in databases, he brings both academic grounding and practical experience delivering scalable solutions that help transform agricultural operations in Brazil. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he has repeatedly moved between full‑stack and specialized backend roles, showing adaptability in adopting and operationalizing diverse technologies for production.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technician, Tecnologia da Informação, Computer Technician, Tecnologia da Informação at Colégio Técnico - UFMG
Engineer’s Degree, Systems Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Systems Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, Spanish